Re: 2.3.46 and 2.3.47pre2 console weirdness?

From: Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Date: Fri Feb 18 2000 - 02:47:48 EST


On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:04:29PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:

> Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 15:16:24 -0500
> From: Simon Kirby <sim@stormix.com>
>
> When sshing to my mailserver in a console and loading up mutt, I
> see that sometimes when there is a big screen update or when a lot
> of text is sent at once, the console somehow gets stuck as if I
> pressed ^S or scroll-lock, but the scroll-lock LED does not light.
> If I press scroll-lock twice, the session resumes. Pressing it
> once makes the LED come on, but nothing changes.
>
> Are you on an SMP system and are you using any of the framebuffer
> drivers for the console or just the normal VGA console driver?

I see this too -- ssh'ing from '47 to '44. VGA and UP. I'm pretty
sure I didn't see this with '45.

-cw

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